Katarzyna Matczyszyn
Katarzyna Matczyszyn is physical chemists and professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland. She is also affiliated member of the World Premier Institute SKMC2 at the Hiroshima University, Japan as well as visiting professor at CNR L’Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti Pouzzoli in Italy. Prior to this she worked at CEA Saclay, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan and Universite Pierre and Marie Curie in France. Her major scientific interest falls into light-matter interactions, especially on biologically significant materials. She works with photoactive molecules (mostly photochromes), various types of nanoparticles (including plasmonic and carbon nanodots), lyotropic liquid crystals such as myelin and DNA as well as in the field of nonlinear optics. She is particularly keen on novel approaches to photodynamic therapy. Her scientific record includes about 140 papers, within last 5 years she was a PI in 1 EU grant, 3 bilateral Polish-French projects and 3 NCN Opus grants (funded by Poland). Since almost 20 years she is a tutor of student’s scientific chapter PhoBiA and coordinates engineering and master studies in the filed of chemistry of materials, she has supervised 8 PhDs and is currently supervising 6 more PhD students. She got the title Wroclavian of the year 2024 in the science, the French-Polish prize of the French Chemical Society 2023 as well as the Ministry of Science award in 2024.
